Following the success of his latest BBC Two travel docu-series, Michael Palin will return to screens once more this December for a bonus Christmas special of Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime, focusing on the travel series Himalaya. Last month, BBC Two’s Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime drew an average of 2.7m viewers per […]
WarnerMedia’s first HBO Asia original, romantic comedy Adventure of the Ring, premieres with two episodes on December 13th at 9pm exclusively on HBO GO and HBO. The eight-episode series will premiere with one new episode every Sunday at the same time. Based on mathematician and author Lai I-Wei’s romance novel Ring of the Day, Adventure […]
TikTok has filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s plan to shut its service down in the US this week. President Trump had ordered a ban on new downloads of the viral video service from November 12th, unless ByteDance was purchased by a US firm – and no deals have been concluded. TikTok said […]
Fox News won the ratings war in the US election hands down. But its candidate lost, even if that is taking a while to sink in. Ironically, Fox’s statisticians were the first to call the poll for Biden, something that has brought them condemnation from the station’s headbanger Alt-Right poster boys who are wildly popular […]
Mediaset has reported a net profit of €29.4 million for the third quarter of 2020 and of €10.5 million for the first nine months. According to the broadcaster, the positive performance was due to prompt action on costs, growth in TV ratings and strong revenues generated by the advertising companies. For the 9 month period, […]
Seasoned broadcast executive Emma Scott, former CEO of UK free-to-air digital satellite platform Freesat and previously responsible for the launch of DTT service Freeview, has suggested that there is an opportunity for a rebrand of such services in the era of multiple streaming services. The UK has connected platforms Freeview Play and YouView in addition […]
Innovid, the advertising and analytics platform built for television, has announced the autumn 2020 edition of its US Video Benchmarks Report, which offers a view of video advertising data. The study found that connected TV (CTV) ad impressions grew 55 per cent year-over-year. Additionally, when compared to mobile and desktop, CTV is
French OTT live and catch-up TV platform Molotov has launched new AVoD service Mango, France’s first. The free advertising-funded offering includes films, documentaries and kids shows, and will join Molotov’s platform of linear channels and catch-up services. Mango has a catalogueof around 1,000 TV and cinema titles from various international rights owners such as Kabillion, […]
The massive projected increase in power needs of the world’s mobile technology – a more than doubling by 2030 – underscores a call for an increasing role of renewable energy in mobile. According to a joint study from mobile and video technology research and development company InterDigital, and ABI Research, the 5G ecosystem will see
fuboTV, the US sports-first live TV streaming platform, has announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30th 2020. The company, which closed its public offering on October 13th, delivered the strongest quarter in its history and exceeded previously raised guidance with solid growth in revenue, subscription and viewership. Q3 2020 highlights […]